Exhibitions aren’t static—they evolve. The way they are set up, the way they are experienced, and even the way they are remembered shifts over time.
The Vernal Exposition
My journey into exhibition-making started with The Vernal Exposition in 2014. A group of young Ghanaian artists—including myself—put together an exhibition with no prior experience. We learned everything on the spot: how to mount, source materials, structure the space, and create a meaningful flow. We had no external team to build things for us, so we did it all ourselves—making every decision intentional, from how we mounted work to the experience we wanted visitors to have.
This hands-on, problem-solving approach has shaped my perspective ever since. Whether working on large institutional exhibitions or small independent shows, I’ve realized that there’s never just one way to make an exhibition work.
Rethinking Exhibition-Making
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